More than meets the eye in BCPS grad rate

Alternative programs drag down numbers

6:40 PM,
Feb. 14, 2013

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State data released Wednesday showed just 41 percent of Battle Creek Public Schools students graduated high school on time last school year, a stark 11-point drop from the Class of 2011.

But officials said that doesn't mean three-fifths of the city-center district's kids are unsuccessful.

The 2012 districtwide rate was a compilation of rates for Battle Creek Central High School and three alternative programs designed to help struggling kids. And the story is different at each of the district's schools. ...